huddled masses

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The lines, "Give me your tired, your poor/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," are inscribed on a plaque in the statue's museum.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2024

But surely many say it's far better to offer a céad míle fáilte than to see your "huddled masses" depart for foreign lands.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023

So are the hundreds of thousands of poor, tired and huddled masses who come to these shores yearning to breathe free.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023

Still another was the poet Emma Lazarus, whose ode to “the huddled masses yearning to breathe free” famously honored the Statue of Liberty.

From New York Times • May 24, 2022

There, with the huddled masses, she and her son are herded through cattle pens to be examined by doctors for sickness or disease.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool